The 'ssid' field of the cfg80211_ibss_params is a u8 pointer and therefore the length is likely to be less than IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN most of the times. This patch fixes the ssid copy in ieee80211_ibss_join() by preventing it from reading beyond the string. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/ibss.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/ibss.c b/net/mac80211/ibss.c index 5f3620f..bf87c70 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ibss.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ibss.c @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ int ieee80211_ibss_join(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, sdata->u.ibss.state = IEEE80211_IBSS_MLME_SEARCH; sdata->u.ibss.ibss_join_req = jiffies; - memcpy(sdata->u.ibss.ssid, params->ssid, IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN); + memcpy(sdata->u.ibss.ssid, params->ssid, params->ssid_len); sdata->u.ibss.ssid_len = params->ssid_len; mutex_unlock(&sdata->u.ibss.mtx); -- 1.7.12.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
